 ... had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the...  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 124by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 542 pages
...precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her * to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There...beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia f whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 138 pages
...still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs Montague. And there the... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 266 pages
...still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There...art has rescued from the common decay. There were ยป75 the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 pages
...the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. 1 ' 1 ' There were the members of that brilliant society which...repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montagu. 21 And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox himself, had carried... | |
 | CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CHROUGH BOOKLAND - 1922 - 530 pages
...appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith." 0 There were the members of that brilliant society which...repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs. Montagu. 21 And there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of Fox himself, had carried... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 pages
...still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs Montague. And there the... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1923 - 1160 pages
...essay on the "Trial of Warren Hastings." "There, too, was she the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay." These ancestors of Lord Dufferin's were, of course, all English, and the Dufferins were, of course,... | |
 | Kenneth Norman Bell, Gladys M. Morgan - 1925 - 380 pages
...charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.4 There too was she,6 the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint...the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacockhangings of Mrs. Montague.' And there the... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There...by love, and music, art has rescued from the common decay.2 There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees,... | |
 | 1927 - 724 pages
...she, the beautiful mother of a beau tiful race, the Saint Cecelia, whose delicate features, lightei up by love and music, art has rescued from the common...criticized and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs. Montague. And there the ladies, whose lips, more persuasive than those of... | |
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